{"id":855999,"date":"2021-10-07T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=855999"},"modified":"2021-10-07T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:59:10","slug":"pfizer-asks-u-s-to-allow-covid-shots-for-kids-age-5-to-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizer-asks-u-s-to-allow-covid-shots-for-kids-age-5-to-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer Asks U.S. To Allow COVID Shots For Kids Age 5 To 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpfizer-asks-u-s-to-allow-covid-shots-for-kids-age-5-to-11%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=855999&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1294264373.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Pfizer has asked the U.S. government to allow the use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, children could begin getting vaccinated within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany parents and pediatricians are clamoring for protection for children younger than 12, today\u2019s age cutoff for the vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-coronavirus-vaccine-health-b9a0e105be709a4d7a1c7d604e8d05f2\">reported<\/a>. \u201cNot only can youngsters sometimes get seriously ill, but keeping them in school can be a challenge with the coronavirus still raging in poorly vaccinated communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An independent expert panel will publicly debate the issue on October 26.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer says younger people should get just a third of the dose now given to adults. \u201cAfter their second dose, the 5- to 11-year-olds developed virus-fighting antibody levels just as strong as teens and young adults get from regular-strength shots,\u201d the AP wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The drugmaker company \u201cstudied the lower dose in 2,268 volunteers ages 5 to 11, and has said there were no serious side effects. The study isn\u2019t large enough to detect any extremely rare side effects, such as the heart inflammation that sometimes occurs after the second dose of the regular-strength vaccine, mostly in young men,\u201d the wire service reported.<\/p>\n<p>The request came after a new study of nearly 3.5 million Pfizer vaccine recipients found the shots are 90% effective against severe COVID-19 illness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pfizer-vax-90-effective-against-severe-covid-even-after-6-months-study\">for at least six months<\/a> after full vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study confirms that vaccines are a critical tool for controlling the pandemic and remain highly effective in preventing severe disease and hospitalization, including from the Delta and other variants of concern. Protection against infection does decline in the months following a second dose,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author Dr. Sara Tartof in a statement, HealthDay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2021\/10\/05\/covid19-vaccine-pfizer-efficacy-six-months\/9841633438749\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this study provides evidence that immunity wanes for all age groups that received the vaccine, the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has called for additional research to determine if booster shots should be made available to all age groups eligible for this vaccine,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the use of boosters for the Pfizer vaccine for older adults and some with health issues, but scientists say more data is needed on whether boosters should be more widely administered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-7\">The study found that vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant of COVID-19 was 93% after the first month, but that declined to 53% after just four months. Against other coronavirus variants that have been circulating, efficacy declined to 67% from 97%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-8\">\u201cTo us, that suggests Delta is not an escape variant that is completely evading vaccine protection,\u201d Tartof said. \u201cIf it was, we would probably not have seen high protection after vaccination, because vaccination would not be working in that case. It would start low, and stay low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decline in the effectiveness of the vaccine is \u201cmost likely due to waning and not caused by delta or other variants escaping vaccine protection,\u201d Pfizer chief medical officer for vaccines Dr. Luis Jodar said.&nbsp;\u201cOur variant-specific analysis clearly shows that the BNT162b2 vaccine is effective against all current variants of concern, including delta,\u201d he said in a release published alongside the study.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer has asked the U.S. government to allow the use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11.If approved, children could begin getting vaccinated within weeks.\u201cMany parents and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}